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Global semiconductor sales recorded a 20.6% year-on-year increase in August to $53.1 billion, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). The Register reports: The Americas led the way, with sales up 43.9 percent to $15.4 billion over last year to notch up what may be the highest on record for August, the SIA said. This comes on the back of swelling demand from sectors such as AI, cloud computing, and automotive. Over in Asia-Pacific sales grew year-on-year by 17.1 percent to $10.95 billion,.
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Temporary authority comes after Musk slammed FCC for not giving money to SpaceX. Read more ›
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Elon Musk is set to unveil a new chapter in Tesla's history at Robotaxi Day as he attempts to pitch the company as one focused on more than just EVs. Read more ›
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Kate Middleton is known for recycling some of her best looks, and Meghan Markle has been doing the same since she married Prince Harry. Read more ›
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Alleged photos and videos of an unannounced 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M4 chip continue to surface on social media, in what could be the worst product leak for Apple since an employee accidentally left an iPhone 4 prototype at a bar in California in 2010. The latest video of what could be a next-generation MacBook Pro was shared on YouTube Shorts today by Russian channel Romancev768, just one day... Read more ›
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In roughly 24 hours — a mere day — Hurricane Milton grew from a tropical storm to a fierce Category 5 hurricane. With winds now pushing 175 miles per hour early Monday afternoon, it’s one of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic. Forecasters expect Milton, which is now churning in the Gulf of […] Read more ›
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Walter Isaacson says Elon Musk's mission to save humanity from hostile AI likely stems from reading sci-fi books like "I, Robot" as a child. Read more ›
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Jerry Lee, 29, was a former manager at Google. Lee says he designed his workload and work style to maximize his chances of getting promoted quickly. Read more ›
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The Star Wars star's hints about wanting a season two are starting to sound like all the hints he dropped before the Disney+ series arrived in the first place. Read more ›
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Colin Farrell and Cristin Milioti star in Matt Reeves' DC Comics spinoff series, now on HBO. Read more ›
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Joker: Folie à Deux may have disappointed critics and audiences in theaters, but there are multiple reasons why it isn't the worst comic book movie of all time. Read more ›
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The sequel starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga has proven to be both a critical disappointment and a box office one. Read more ›
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Kamala Harris appeared on "60 Minutes" and didn't say anything new. Donald Trump didn't show, but his people say he never agreed to. Will it matter? Read more ›
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The Register's Thomas Claburn reports: Buck Shlegeris, CEO at Redwood Research, a nonprofit that explores the risks posed by AI, recently learned an amusing but hard lesson in automation when he asked his LLM-powered agent to open a secure connection from his laptop to his desktop machine. "I expected the model would scan the network and find the desktop computer, then stop," Shlegeris explained to The Register via email. "I... Read more ›
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The Register's Simon Sharwood reports: AT&T has claimed that Broadcom made it an offer to increase prices by 1,050 percent, and may be influencing other vendors to make a migration harder. The claim of the colossal price hike came in an email [PDF] filed in evidence by AT&T in its case alleging Broadcom hasn't honored a contract that would allow the carrier to acquire an additional two years of support... Read more ›
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The small town of Spruce Pine, North Carolina, which supplies high-purity quartz essential for semiconductor production, is reeling from the damage caused by Tropical Storm Helene. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Axios: Spruce Pine is one of the only places in the world to mine high-purity quartz. The mineral is an essential ingredient of chips in countless products, including medical devices, solar panels, cellphones and the chips powering... Read more ›
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Microsoft is releasing a new version of Office this week, designed for people that don't want to subscribe to Microsoft 365. From a report: The standalone Microsoft Office 2024 release is now available for both consumers and small businesses, and includes locked-in-time versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Outlook across both Mac and PC. Office 2024 includes a lot of the updates that Microsoft has been delivering to Microsoft... Read more ›
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The Firefox extension for the uBlock Origin Lite content blocker is no longer available. According to Neowin, "Raymond Hill, the maker of the extension, pulled support and moved uBlock Origin Lite to self-hosting after multiple encounters with a 'nonsensical and hostile' review process from the store review team." From the report: It all started in early September when Mozilla flagged every version of the uBlock Origin Lite extension as violating... Read more ›
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Amazon is set to roll out a greater number of ads [non-paywalled link] across its blockbuster television shows and movies on Prime Video next year as the US tech giant steps up its push into ad-funded streaming services. Financial Times: The company said it had not seen a sharp drop in subscribers since it introduced advertising to its Prime Video platform eight months ago, allaying fears among top executives of... Read more ›
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Cloudflare has emerged victorious in a patent infringement lawsuit against Sable Networks, securing a $225,000 settlement and forcing the patent holder to dedicate its entire portfolio to the public domain. The case, which began in March 2021 with Sable asserting nearly 100 claims across four patents, concluded after a Texas jury found Cloudflare not guilty of infringement in February 2024. Sable, described by Cloudflare as a "patent troll," had previously... Read more ›
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The world's tallest mountain is getting taller. Mount Everest, also known as Chomolungma, has grown about 15 to 50 meters (50 to 164 feet) higher over the past 89,000 years than expected, according to a modeling study released Monday. From a report: The culprit is a nearby river eroding and pushing down land, causing the ground under Mount Everest to rebound and lift. "It's a new additional component of uplift... Read more ›
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A study published in Nature has found that conservative social media users were more likely to face sanctions, but attributes this to their higher propensity to share low-quality news rather than political bias. Researchers analyzed 9,000 Twitter users during the 2020 U.S. election, finding pro-Trump users were 4.4 times more likely to be suspended than pro-Biden users. However, they also shared significantly more links from sites rated as untrustworthy by... Read more ›
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Audio Overview, a new AI podcasting tool by Google, can generate realistic podcasts with human-like voices using content uploaded by users through NotebookLM. MIT Technology Review reports: NotebookLM, which is powered by Google's Gemini 1.5 model, allows people to upload content such as links, videos, PDFs, and text. They can then ask the system questions about the content, and it offers short summaries. The tool generates a podcast called Deep... Read more ›
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